We're back with more recommendations for Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge! Today we are tackling: 

A classic of genre fiction

A book you can read in one sitting

An essay anthology

An assigned book you hated (or didn't finish)

 

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Old man and the Sea by Ernest hemingway
We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson
The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Fire This Time, edited by Jesamyn Ward
Rereadings, edited by Annie Fadiman
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to have Kids, edited by Meghan Daum
Double Bind: Women on Ambition, edited by Robin Romm

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tripods trilogy by John Christopher